Hi De Thanks for those leads. I'm thinking off taking off the tabs at the waist as they were an afterthought as the rest of my dance group wears English elizabethan. Then make a partlet (?) like in the Bronzino paintings. Bye for now,
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy music ~ dancing ~ sewing ~ patterns ~ books 1480s - 1890s : Renaissance to Victorian http://www.earthlydelights.com.au On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:31 AM, otsisto <[email protected]> wrote: > first, if you are leaning towards Italian you might want to get on the > Italian Ren yahoo groups site. > Your outfit is closer in style of the mid 1500s English and French. > Perhaps instead of revamping the dress you might want to make another gown. > Besides Realm of Venus there are also > Festive Attyre, mainly Florentine > http://festiveattyre.com/research/index.html > but costume wise (clicking on the pictures will get you to dress diaries, > usually) > http://festiveattyre.com/gallery/index.html > > Oonagh's > http://www.geocities.com/oonaghsown/index2.html > > The Purple files > http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/Kat's_Closet.html > > De > > -----Original Message----- > Some years ago I copied a renaissance gown I saw on the internet. It has > been added to over the years and is no longer identifiable as belonging to > any certain period. I would like to sort it out, and probably move more to > Italian with a sheer partlet etc. I'd love to find some portraits to work > from as well. > Can anyone advise me on what might be the best way forward with this gown, > and what period it might fit into best of all. > Pictures of it are at > http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/garden_family.jpg > I do not like to wear a solid partlet, and now have a gathered cotton > chemise with full sleeves to wear underneath. I have not seen my style > of sleeve in any Italian portraits yet. > http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v228/127/105/n533339547_9038.jpg > (without corset here as dancing on Saturday in heatwave, trying to > keep temps down) > > Portraits that I like include: > http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/Music1560s.jpg > http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/Trictrac.JPG > Bye for now, > > Aylwen Gardiner-Garden > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
